Interior Department faulted for preservation lapses

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If one artifact is important enough to disrupt peoples lives and charge them
with felonies they should all be considered that important and cared for as
such.

I know salvage archaeologists who are called in for road
construction in Arizona. After the site is excavated they put the pottery and
other objects in a hole dug in the center of the project place dirt on it and
flatten it out with a roller! why are some charged with 8 felonies for a few
pots while those pots found on road sites lay crushed under road
construction?

History is important and it should be preserved.
Imagine if they spent the millions preserving and restoring sites or even
documenting there own museum collections instead of paying a snitch for cases
that likely wont go anywhere?

This seems business as usual for the
feds. They did a similar raid back in teh 80's and what results did it have and
detering excavations or preserving history?

I know this wont be
politically popular but with the theft clause in NAGPRA and local tribes taking
items from museums these private collections are the best way of preserving our
history.